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Editorial| Volume 12, ISSUE 3, P603-620, September 1992

Assessment of Fetal Lung Maturity by Laboratory Methods

  • Stuart B. Dubin
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    Address reprint requests to: Stuart B. Dubin, MD, PhD, Clinical Chemistry #4708, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048-0750
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    From the Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; and the Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California
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DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0272-2712(18)30508-0
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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0272-2712(18)30508-0

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